A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
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T.S. Eliot
Prose divides shame into stations.
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Wayne Koestenbaum
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
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Jeffrey Eugenides
Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.
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Mark Twain
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
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Walter Benjamin
More Quotes By Walter Benjamin
The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
Truth resists being projected into the realm of knowledge.
Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.
Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
